What is included with this book?
Preliminary Contents | |
Note: Each chapter concludes with a Revision Checklist and Exercises | |
Backgrounds | |
Getting Started: Writing and Your Career | |
Writing--An Essential Job Skill | |
Writing for the Global Marketplace | |
Four Keys to Effective Writing | |
Characteristics of Job-Related Writing | |
Ethical Writing in the Workplace Sucessful | |
Employees Are Successful Writers | |
The Writing Process at Work | |
What Writing Is and Is Not | |
Researching Planning | |
Drafting Revising Editing | |
Collaborative Writing and Meetings at Work | |
Teamwork Is Crucial to Business Success | |
Advantages of Collaborative | |
Writing Collaborative | |
Writing and the Writing Process | |
Guidelines for Successful Group | |
Writing Sources of Conflict in Group | |
Dynamics and How to Solve Them Models for Collaboration | |
Evolution of a Collaboratively | |
Written Document Collaborating | |
Online Meetings | |
Correspondence | |
Writing Memos, Faxes, and Emails | |
What Memos, Faxes, and Emails | |
Have in Common Memos | |
Faxes | |
E-Mails | |
Writing Letters: Some Basics for Audiences Worldwide | |
Letters in the Age of the Internet Letter | |
Formats Parts of a Letter | |
Organizing the Body of a Business Letter | |
Making a Good Impression on Your Reader | |
Using the Most Effective Language in Your Letters | |
Guidelines for Printing Your Letter | |
International Business Correspondence | |
Types of Business Letters | |
Types of Letters | |
Inquiry Letters | |
Special Request Letters | |
Sales Letters: Some Preliminary Guidelines | |
The Four A's of Sales Letters | |
Customer Relations Letters | |
Sending Letter-Quality Messages: Final Advice to Seal Your Success | |
How to Get a Job: Reacute;sumeacute;s, Letters, Applications, and Interviews | |
Steps the Employer Takes to Hire | |
Steps to Follow to Get Hired | |
Analyzing Your Strengths | |
Looking in the Right Places for a Job | |
Preparing a Dossier | |
Preparing a Reacute;sumeacute; | |
The Online Reacute;sumeacute; | |
Letters of Application | |
Going to an Interview | |
Accepting or Declining a Job Offer | |
Gathering and Summarizing Information | |
Doing Research for School and on the Job | |
The Research Process | |
Types of Research | |
Primary Research | |
Secondary Research | |
Periodical Databases | |
Finding Reference Materials | |
Government Documents | |
Doing Internet Research | |
Evaluating Web Sites | |
Note Taking Conclusion | |
Documenting Sources | |
The Whys and Hows of Documentation | |
Parenthetical Documentation | |
Preparing an MLA Works Cited List Using MLA | |
In-Text Documentation | |
Sample Entries for an MLA Works Cited | |
List Preparing an APA | |
Reference List Using APA | |
In-text Documentation | |
Sample Entries for an APA Reference List | |
The Chicago Numbered Note | |
Style of Documentation | |
Other Ways to Document in Scientific and Technical Writing | |
Sample Research Paper tUsing MLA | |
In-Text Documentation | |
Summarizing Material | |
The Importance of Summaries in Business | |
Contents of a Summary | |
Preparing a Summary | |
Executive Summaries | |
Evaluative Summaries | |
Abstracts Writing Successful News Releases | |
Preparing Documents and Visuals | |
Designing Clear Visuals | |
The Purpose of Visuals | |
Two Categories of Visuals | |
Tables Figures Using Visuals | |
Ethically Using Appropriate | |
Visuals for International Audiences | |
Glossary | |
Designing Successful Documents and Web Sites Organizing | |
Information Visually | |
Characteristics of Effective Design | |
Tools for Designing Your Documents | |
Desktop Publishing Before Choosing a Design | |
The ABCs of Print Document Design | |
Poor Document Design: What Not to Do Four Rules of Effective Page | |
Design Writing for and Designing Web Sites | |
Writing Instructions | |
Instructions and Your Job | |
Why Instructions Are Important | |
The Variety of Instructions: A Brief Overview | |
Assessing and Meeting Your Audience's Needs | |
The Process of Writing Instructions | |
Using the Right Style | |
Using Visuals Effectively | |
The Five Parts of Instructions | |
Model of Full Set of Instructions | |
Writing Procedures for Policies and Regulations | |
Some Final Advice | |
Writing Winning Proposals | |
Writing Successful Proposals | |
Proposals are Persuasive | |
Plans Proposals | |
Frequently Are Collaborative Efforts | |
Types of Proposals | |
Guidelines for Writing a Successful Proposal | |
Internal Proposals | |
Sales Proposals | |
Proposals for Research Papers and Reports | |
A Final Reminder | |
Writing Effective Short Reports | |
Types of Short Reports | |
Guidelines for Writing Short Reports | |
Periodic Reports | |
Sales Reports | |
Progress Reports | |
Trip/Travel Reports | |
Test Reports | |
Incident Reports | |
Short Reports: Some Final Thoughts | |
Writing Careful Long Reports | |
How a Long Report | |
Differs from a Short Report | |
The Process of Writing a Long Report | |
Parts of a Long Report | |
A Model Long Report | |
Final Words of Advice about Long Reports | |
Making Successful Presentations at Work | |
Types of Presentations at Work | |
Informal Briefings Formal Presentations | |
Analyzing Your Audience | |
The Parts of a Formal Presentation | |
Presentation Software | |
Non-Computerized Presentations | |
Rehearsing Your Presentation | |
Delivering Your Presentation | |
Evaluating Presentations | |
A Writer's Brief Guide to Paragraphs, Sentences, and Words | |
Paragraphs Sentences Words | |
Proofreading Marks | |
Index | |
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